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I Want to Climb Every Page of This Book Mountain

The final plans for Spijkenisse’s—a small town in the Netherlands—stunning new library were revealed back in 2009 when construction began. But now that the Book Mountain + Library Quarter is complete and open to the public, we’re finally getting our first actual glimpses of its pyramid-like facade and gorgeous mountain of books inside. Designed by…

Watch a deleted scene from Lilo & Stitch about racist tourists

Here’s a nixed, incomplete scene from the 2002 Disney cartoon Lilo & Stitch that took a break from the film’s main “alien experiment on the loose” storyline. This sequence showed how filmmakers were willing to confront those rude tourists who treat Hawaii’s residents like the denizens of one big exotic playground. This cute scene would’ve…

Facebook Is Reading Your Messages and Liking Things For You (Updated: Not as Bad as We Thought)

You might think clicking “Like” is the only way to stamp that public FB affirmation on something—you’re wrong. Facebook is checking your private messages and automatically liking things you talk about. Update: Sort of. The scanning which is either an oversight on Facebook’s part of a deliberate effort—we’re waiting to hear back from FB increases…

Watch a Grown Man Steal an iPhone From a Baby (Yes, Really)

This is the best worst video you’ll see for a while. That’s a 20-month-old baby in the carriage, watching Barney on her mom’s iPhone. And then the guy who sort of looks like Jim’s dad from American Pie bends over and steals it. Again, from a baby. He stole an iPhone from a baby and…

Science fiction travel posters help you pick your next off-planet vacation

We love these simple but stylish interplanetary tourism posters by Dean Walton. Who wants a vintage poster of New York when they can have an ad for Mars, Vulcan, Pandora, or even the less popular retreat of LV-426? [Via Slashfilm]

The iPad Mini Could Look Absolutely Stunning

After the iPhone 5 leak mega-saga—at this point you can call these renders sneak previews—the black anodized aluminum iPad mini seems like a done deal. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-ipad-mini-photos-show-first-look-at-black-model-5948258 Which is why Gizmodo reader Martin Hajek—who made those awesome iPhone 5 renders that looked just like the real thing—has rendered these images. The more I look at the…

Dying medium distributer Redbox is exploring new life as a ticket broker. The best part? A measly $1 surcharge. [WSJ]

Nokia’s Lumia 920 Will Be an AT&T Exclusive Because Verizon Hates You and Everything You Love

AT&T just confirmed it will have the Lumia 920 some time in November, and it’ll be an AT&T exclusive. Great. Ugh. https://gizmodo.com/nokia-lumia-920-hands-on-you-really-want-this-thing-bu-5940654 In summary: Verizon misses out on the coolest phone coming out this year. Nokia (CDMA concerns aside) hitches its wagon to the crappier major LTE carrier. And Microsoft’s best foot forward is on…

This newly discovered tiny dinosaur is adorably terrifying

It’s hard to live up to the title “terrible lizard” when you’re only two feet long and weigh less than a house cat, but the newly discovered Pegomastax africanus does its best. With a name that translates to “thick jaw from Africa,” P. africanus lived 200 million years ago or so. Its fossil was first…

Backing Up Is a Lot Easier When Your Car’s Back Seat Is Invisible

The last time Keio University was in the news it was for a prototype wearable cloaking device developed by a team of researchers at the school. A decade later you still can’t go out and buy one, but the research has inspired another brilliant use for the technology—invisible car interiors that let you see everything…

Facebook’s First Ad Is Facebook’s Worst Ad

Facebook just hit 1,000,000,000 users. That’s a lot of people tagging and poking and posting GIFs of puppies kissing geese. So, to celebrate, Facebook released the dumbest video we’ve seen in a while. Facebook (and The Zuck) prides itself on how much it connects us. So of course the spot shows lots of people connecting…

The Best Action Movie You’ll See All Week = Parkour + Rube Goldberg

Cartoonist Rube Goldberg drew out comically complex machines that satirized the inventor’s zeal to make modern life more convenient. Here, parkour practitioner Jason Paul throws himself in the middle of a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine, complete with life-threatening tumbles and falls. When the art of getting from Point A to Point B with the utmost…

Over the Top Rifle Controller Makes Modern Warfare More Real Than Ever

The Nintendo Wiimote and Sony’s PlayStation Move controllers made big strides in increasing the realism in first person shooter games. But neither can hold a candle to the $90 Delta Six combat rifle when it comes to enhancing the make believe shoot-em-up experience. It’s amazing how far we’ve come since the NES Zapper. Unlike the…

Grant Morrison wants to write a Doctor Who episode. Plus Guillermo del Toro talks about his Hulk TV show!

James Gunn talks casting for Guardians of the Galaxy. Guillermo del Toro offers updates on Frankenstein and The Hulk TV show. Will a Doctor Who companion appear in Star Trek Into Darkness after all? Falling Skies elects its president, and he’s a former Star Trek officer. And Arrow reveals its first look at the DC…

This Machine Can Sequence a Genome in Just Two Days

Researchers at a hospital in Kansas have been using this machine to crank out entire genome sequences of just-born babies in two days—which could be fast enough to change treatment regimes and save their wonderful little lives. Usually, gene testing in neonatal intensive care units takes over a month, which means babies expect aggressive or…

YouTube Takedowns Just Got Slightly Less Absurd

YouTube’s automated copyright takedown system is nothing if not robust, often to the point of head-shaking ridiculousness. But even though the company’s trigger-happy Content ID isn’t going away any time soon, it’s at least getting a much-needed kick in the pants. https://gizmodo.com/nasas-official-mars-landing-video-got-taken-off-youtube-5932089 YouTube’s moves to improve its copyright violation detection technology doesn’t mean it’ll be…

Facebook Now Has One Billion Active Users

Mark Zuckerberg has just announced that there are “more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month.” That means one-in-seven people across the entire planet log on to the social network every month. When you stop and think about it, that’s kinda crazy. [Facebook] Image via AHMAD FAIZAL YAHYA / Shutterstock.com

Google and Asus Preparing a 32GB Nexus 7?

News coming out of places where men worry about stock levels has revealed the existence of a new Nexus 7 model, with makers Asus and Google said to be preparing a new model of their popular tablet with 32GB of onboard storage. Google currently sells two Nexus 7 models, the cheaper version with 8GB of…

A Piano From 1931 That Looks Like It’s From the Future

Looking at this grand piano, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a prototype for some forthcoming modern take on a classical instrument. Forgiven, but wrong, because this futuristic looking set of keys in fact dates back to 1931. It was designed by Poul Henningsen, in response to a conversation with famous Danish Jazz pianist…

What Siri Thinks of Your Favorite Movies

Siri sometimes says crazy things that don’t quite match up with what you’ve asked. But the Verge has discovered that she has some pretty strong opinions when it comes to movies. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Siri has a lot to say about sci-fi, and seems to have a lot of admiration for the likes of Hal. She’s…